Latitudinal variation in parental energy expenditure during brood rearing in the great tit

Oecologia

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-154

  Sanz, Juan José ^a,b   Tinbergen, Joost M ^a   Moreno, Juan ^b   Orell, Markku ^c   Verhulst, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Daily energy expenditure; Doubly labelled water; Parental effort; Parus major; Working day length

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; ENERGY USE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PASSERINE;

EUROPE;

PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 0033965638     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008842     Document Type: Article

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